Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 8/21/15

Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 8/21/15

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It’s another installment of the weekly Tubefilter Chart of the Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide and children’s nursery rhymes are still getting a lot of plays.

Chart Toppers

Littlebabybum is at the top of the charts again this week. The YouTube channel that’s home to videos of your pre-K child’s most favorite nursery rhymes cracked the 100 Million Weekly Views Club this week, topping out just shy of 109.7 million views. Up next in second place for its second week is WWEFanNation. The YouTube repository for clips of World Wrestling Entertainment amassed more than 99.8 million views during the seven-day timeframe.

TheDiamondMinecart is still next up in third place. The top-ranked gamer on the chart scored more than 94.1 million views on the week. ItsBabyBigMouth is in fourth place. The Canadian YouTube channel dedicated what’s inside Kinder Surprise Eggs cracked 85.4 million views in the week

And rounding out the Top 5 is BuzzFeedVideo. The flagship YouTube channel from the site known for listicles, animated GIFs, and hard news stayed relatively constant in its weekly view count with almost 85.3 million views.

Top Gainers

The honor of one of our Top Gainers this week goes to Coby Persin aka Model Pranksters aka zipkid99.

The YouTube home of a risque, controversial, and morally questionable mix of prank videos and “social experiments” had a particularly good week on the internet. Persin uploaded his modern interpretation of To Catch A Predator,showing just how easy it is to lure unsuspecting pre-and-early-teens to meet up in strange locales with strange men. And it lured a lot of eyeballs to his online videos, too. The channel witnessed a week-over-week increase in views of 787% and racked up more than 42.9 million views to top out at #27 on the worldwide chart.

Distribution

All in all, the top 50 most viewed YouTube channels accounted for 2,541,455,004 views last week. Here’s the distribution of a few of those channels by multi-channel network:

Maker Studios: 7 channels in the Top 50, with TheDiamondMinecart at #3.

VEVO: 6 channels each in the Top 50, with Taylor Swift at #7.

BroadbandTV, BuzzFeed, Fullscreen, XMediaDigital, ZoominTV: 2 channels each in the Top 50, with BroadbandTV’s Major Lazer at #32, BuzzFeed’s BuzzFeed Video at #5, Fullscreen’s FamilyFunPack at #18, XMediaDigital’s mashamedvedtv at #9, and ZoominTV’s JackSepticEye at # 13.

And here’s the distribution of the this week’s Top 50 YouTube channels by country of origin:

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